In the test site of the research center, staff were unloading several silver balls as tall as a person from the helicopter cabin.
"Academician, all the emergency survival capsules that can be brought back are here." The crew reported to Chen Xin that these spheres were all the emergency survival capsules that they could bring back.
Chen Xin looked at the silver balls unloaded from the cabin, nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work. You go and have a good rest. In addition, send these to my laboratory."
"Yes, academician." The staff on the side agreed. After loading the balls on the trolley, they transported them to the elevator nearby.
Although these balls are actually very light and can roll easily, the staff still did not take any action to roll these balls directly to Chen Xin's laboratory.
By the time Chen Xin checked the Titan used for mountain rescue and asked about the situation from the driver, when he returned to the laboratory, these silver balls had been sent to the laboratory, and several researchers had also The inspection of these spheres began.
Chen Xin put on his experimental clothes and protective equipment before walking to one of the spheres and asked a researcher who was inspecting them: "How is the situation of these emergency survival cabins?"
These emergency survival cabins are the same old preserved vegetable survival cabins that were sent to Chen Xin before. However, after Chen Xin upgraded and improved them, the practicality of this thing has changed, so it is also regarded as a Emergency survival supplies were provided to the expedition team for practical testing in addition to providing support.
Although neither Chen Xin nor the Disaster Response Institute hopes to conduct actual tests in this way, it is obvious that after the expedition team encountered an avalanche, they immediately used these emergency survival capsules for escape.
So although the first use test was not what Chen Xin expected, since it has been used, it is better not to waste this precious opportunity to check the use of these emergency survival cabins.
These emergency survival pods no longer look like the old preserved vegetables that Chen Xin had seen before. The used survival pods are all silver balls filled with air like this.
This layer of silver is not painted, but a layer of special insulation material. The reason why it is silver is to isolate heat radiation.
Chen Xin picked up a utility knife and tried to scratch on this layer of material, but it did not leave any trace.
Chen Xin was very satisfied with this. He didn't just scratch it lightly, but with a force that pierced the outer layer of the emergency survival cabin. However, this layer of material was not scratched, which was enough. It shows that it is reliable enough.
In this way, even if you encounter any broken ice or stone tips in the wild, you will at least have a certain degree of resistance.
But even so, Chen Xin still used another tool to cut open the outer layer of insulation material.
What was somewhat unexpected was that although the outer layer of the emergency survival capsule was scratched, causing air leakage inside, the entire survival capsule still maintained its spherical shape and did not collapse.
Chen Xin was not surprised by this, but continued to peel off the outer layer of the entire emergency survival cabin, revealing the black grid inside.
These black grids are distributed in a triangular shape, and each line is about the thickness of a ballpoint pen. It looks like a grid is woven on the inner layer of the emergency survival cabin with black threads, making it an emergency survival cabin. The structural support of the survival capsule is the same.
This fact is not wrong. The grid formed by these black lines is indeed the structural support of the emergency survival cabin, but it is not made of lines, but non-Newtonian liquid materials used in previous disaster response research institutes.
This kind of material will harden quickly after receiving impact. Chen Xin took advantage of this to first use flexible materials to make a layer of triangular grid-shaped pipes in the inner layer of the emergency survival cabin, and then filled these pipes with this material. A non-Newtonian liquid material.
In this way, when not in use, the flexible materials and liquid non-Newtonian liquid materials can be folded very easily without taking up much space. They can be installed on a backpack and used like a car airbag.
But when it is released and inflated, due to the backlog of internal gas, the originally liquid non-Newtonian liquid material will quickly solidify and harden, becoming the support that supports the structural strength of the emergency survival cabin.
This non-Newtonian liquid material has high strength after hardening, making it difficult to break or deform even if pressed hard.
This means that even if the outer layer of the emergency survival cabin is damaged and the air leaks inside, it can still have a certain outer layer strength to protect the people inside from being harmed by external impacts.
Of course, this is weaker in defense than the Disaster Response Institute's original plan of completely filling the outer layer with this material, but considering the cost, this design is more economical.
Originally, Chen Xin wanted to use memory metal as the structural support of the emergency survival cabin. This material has excellent performance, can quickly restore its shape when the temperature changes drastically, and has the strength and toughness of metal.
Even if things made of memory metal are crushed or rolled into a ball, they can automatically recover as long as the temperature changes.
This is a material that has been around for a long time before the disaster, but due to manufacturing cost issues, this material has not been used on a large scale.
Chen Xin was also concerned about this, so he did not use memory metal as the raw material, but used the original non-Newtonian liquid material in a more economical way.
Judging from the current usage, this non-Newtonian liquid material performs very well and has perfectly met Chen Xin's design requirements.
If there is any shortcoming, it may be that this material cannot be recovered after hardening. It is a disposable material, making the entire emergency survival cabin impossible to recycle.
Chen Xin didn't pay much attention to this. After all, this thing was used to save lives, and it could only be used once at most. Who would use this thing every day without any problem?
However, in addition to these issues, Chen Xin was also very concerned about the performance of the expedition team members who stayed in the emergency survival cabin for a night to see if there were any structural improvements worth improving.
At the beginning, Chen Xin only considered the use of emergency escape, and did not consider the situation if someone was trapped and stayed in the emergency survival cabin for a long time after using it.
Now that he has a clear use case, he certainly hopes to understand the situation as much as possible so that he can make subsequent improvements.
